*** Don’t Hate the Mayor, Hate the Game – an Analysis of Hate Speech on Social Media Against Mayors in Baden-Wuerttemberg ***
*** in: Policy & Internet, 2023
Rafael Bauschke, University of Applied Sciences - Public Administration and Finance Ludwigsburg, Germany
Sebastian Jäckle, University of Freiburg, Germany 

The replication data in the folder "Replication" includes:

1) This ReadMe File
2) "Don't hate the mayor.do": a Stata Do-File replicating all figures and tables from the article
3) a folder "data" including three datasets necesarry for replicating the analysis: 
	- "mayors_survey.dta" 
	- "Bevölkerung Gemeinden 12411-01-01-5.xlsx" 
	- "elections.out.xlsx" 
   and a folder "dump" in which all provisional data needed for the final results are saved (these files can be deleted after the estimation)
4) a folder "figures" in which the final figures from the article are saved
5) a folder "tables" in which the final tables from the article are saved 

Before running the Stata Do-File "Don't hate the mayor.do":
- set the path to your "Replication"-folder line 20 in the Stata Do-File